TABLE OF CONTENTS

April 2014

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Cover: Michael Snow, In Medias Res (detail), 1998, C-print on Lexan, 8' 7“ x 11' 7 5/8”.

April 2014, Vol. 52, No. 8

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COLUMNS

Six stills from Mireia Sallarès’s Las Muertes Chiquitas (Little Deaths), 2009, digital video, color, sound, 286 minutes. Top left: Mireia Sallarès.

FILM

Amy Taubin on Mireia Sallarès’s Little Deaths

Lav Diaz, Norte, Hangganan ng Kasaysayan (Norte, the End of History), 2013, HD video, color, sound, 250 minutes. Fabian Viduya (Sid Lucero).

FILM

James Quandt on Lav Diaz’s Norte, the End of History

BOOKS

Jim Fletcher on Semiotext(e)’s Schizo-Culture

Terence Young, From Russia with Love, 1963, 35 mm, color, sound, 115 minutes. Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Anthony Dawson).

BOOKS

David Rimanelli on Laurence Rickels’s SPECTRE

Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, American Folk Art Museum, 2001, New York. Photo: Dan Nguyen/Flickr.

ARCHITECTURE

Jorge Otero-Pailos on preservation and MoMA’s proposed expansion

ARCHITECTURE

Julian Rose on the MoMA expansion

Superflex, The Campaign (detail), 1994, billboard, offset print on paper, vitrine with orange bag, dimensions variable. Photo: Anders Sune Berg.

SLANT

Lars Bang Larsen on Superflex

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Pauline Oliveros

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SHOCK VALUE: SIGMAR POLKE’S 1976 RETROSPECTIVE IN DÜSSELDORF

Christine Mehring

Berges furniture store, site of “Leben mit Pop. Eine Demonstration für Kapitalistischen Realismus” (Living with Pop: A Demonstration for Capitalist Realism), Flingerstraße 11, Düsseldorf, October 1963. Photo: Reiner Ruthenbeck.

SPECULATIVE REALISM: AN INTERVIEW WITH RENÉ BLOCK

Speculative proposal for renovation of housing block in Paris. From Actuel 12 (September 1971).

TOWARD AN ARCHITECTURE OF ENJOYMENT

Henri Lefebvre, introduction by Łukasz Stanek

Martin Boyce, A Thousand Future Skies, 2014, painted steel and glass. Installation view, Glasgow School of Art. Photo: Keith Hunter.

1000 WORDS: STEVEN HOLL AND MARTIN BOYCE

Julian Rose

“THIS IS ART”: ANATOMY OF A SENTENCE

Thierry de Duve on aesthetic judgment

Marina Pinsky, Instruction Manual, 2013, twelve gelatin silver prints. Installation view, Clearing, Brussels.

OPENINGS: MARINA PINSKY

Beau Rutland

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View of “Michael Snow: Photo-Centric,” 2014. Foreground: In Medias Res, 1998. Background, from left: Paris de jugement Le and/or State of the Arts, 2003; Multiplication Table, 1977; Waiting Room, 1978; Digest, 1970. Photo: Constance Mensh.

J. Hoberman on Michael Snow

View of “Lutz Bacher: SNOW,” 2013–14. Photo: Stefan Altenburger.

Simon Baier on Lutz Bacher

Moira Dryer, The Signature Painting, 1987, casein on wood; top: 48 x 63“, bottom: 10 x 60”.

New York

Paul Cowan, five works from the series “BCEAUSE THE SKY IS BULE,” 2013–, chroma-key blue paint on canvas, each panel 78 x 41".

Chicago

Jacob Proctor on Paul Cowan

Rodney McMillian, Untitled, 2011, carpet, 10' 4“ x 15' 7” x 2' 5". From “Black in the Abstract, Part 2: Hard Edges/Soft Curves,” from “Outside the Lines.”

Houston

Graham Bader on “Outside the Lines”

Liz Larner, 110 Fwy, June Gloom and Shrimp Tacos, 2013, glass, steel, bacterial culture on nutrient agar, detritus from 110 Freeway, sampling of “June Gloom,” shrimp tacos, 13 1/4 x 13 1/4 x 6 1/4".

Los Angeles

Erik van Lieshout, Stephan, 2013, black-and-white photocopies on particleboard, wood, 10' 6“ x 8' 2 3/8” x 2 3/8".

London

Jef Geys, Esmeralda, 1970, ink, colored pencil, black-and-white C-print, offset print, 26 x 17 5/8". From the series “Passeports de vaches” (Cow Passports), 1965–.

Paris

Axel Kasseböhmer, Walchensee, Nr. 79, 2011, oil on canvas, 13 x 19 3/4".

Berlin

Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa, the machinist leninist forest, 2013, acrylic and charcoal on paper, 63 x 78 3/4".

Cologne

Noemi Smolik on Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa

Chiara Fumai, I Did Not Say or Mean “Warning,” 2013, mixed media with video (color, sound, 20 minutes 27 seconds). Installation view.

Brescia, Italy

Marco Tagliafierro on Chiara Fumai

Thomas Hartmann, Ohne Titel (Bibliothek) (Untitled [Library]), 2013, oil on canvas, 47 1/4 x 70 7/8".

Vienna

Marc-Antoine Fehr, Der Verschollene (The Man Who Disappeared), 2013, oil on canvas, 9' 1/4“ x 13' 1 1/2”.

Zurich

Hans Rudolf Reust on Marc-Antoine Fehr

Ewa Juszkiewicz, Untitled, 2013, oil on canvas, 51 1/8 x 39 3/8".

Warsaw

Sylwia Serafinowicz on Ewa Juszkiewicz

Ingrid Hora, Positions for leading, 2013, ink-jet print, 18 7/8 x 26 3/8".

Dubai

Murtaza Vali on Ingrid Hora

Documentation of “Dropping Event” by Hi Red Center at Ikenobo Hall, Tokyo, October 10, 1964. Photo: Minoru Hirata. From “Great Crescent.”

Hong Kong

Stephanie Bailey on “Great Crescent”

Lee Kit, What to do?, 2014, mixed media with video (color, silent, 5 minutes 24 seconds). Installation view.

Tokyo

Stephanie Bailey on Lee Kit

Nguyẽn Trinh Thi, Unsubtitled, 2010,video projections (color, various durations, sound) on wood, dimensions variable. From the Singapore Biennale 2013.

Singapore